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Frosty81 · 02-13-2015, 11:47 PM

Is there anyone on here who knows exactly which other legitimately released DVDs keep the Paramount TV "Blue Mountain" logo, besides these releases:

The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976-1977)
James Clavell's Shogun (miniseries) (1980)
Police Squad! (1982)
The Winds of War (miniseries) (1983)
Webster (1983-1989)
MacGyver (seasons 1 and 2) (1985-1992)
(Broadcast years given since inception, but only the post-1975/pre-1987 episodes are covered)

Visual traits:
No registered trademark symbol (1975-1985 filmed version and 1984-1987 videotaped version)
Registered trademark symbol (1977-1987 filmed version)
Raised peak (1982-1987 filmed version)

Musical anomalies:
No music (on the VHS release of A Woman Called Golda)
Pre-1975 music (on some older reruns of Mannix)

List of DVD-available versions:
1975 filmed version with 1976 jingle (The Brady Bunch Variety Hour)
1977 filmed version with 1979 jingle (James Clavell's Shogun; Webster season 1)
1977 filmed version with 1980 jingle (James Clavell's Shogun)
1977 filmed version with 1981 jingle (Police Squad!; The Winds of War)
1977 filmed version with 1982 jingle (Webster season 1; MacGyver season 1: "Pilot" and "Trumbo's World")
1982 filmed version (raised mountain peak) with 1982 jingle (Webster season 2)
1984 videotape version with 1979 jingle (MacGyver season 1: "Thief of Budapest" and "Flame's End")
1984 videotape version with 1982 jingle (all MacGyver season 1 episodes aside from the above four mentioned)
1984 videotape version with 1986 jingle (all MacGyver season 2 episodes)

List of Blue Mountain versions not available on DVD yet (I will edit this list if any of the above are discovered on DVD):
1975 filmed version with the '77, '78, '79, 80, '81 and '82 jingles
1977 filmed version with the '77 and '78 jingles
1982 filmed version with the '79 jingle (i.e., the Happy Days rerun "The Apartment")

The reason I wrote all this down is because the DVDs of Laverne & Shirley (season 1), Mork & Mindy (season 1) and Cheers did not restore the Blue Mountain logo, therefore the Blue Mountain's opportunity for widespread musical variety is all but missed on the medium.

Even with the DVD releases I mention that have this, they have different jingles than originally seen on TV and reruns: on Webster season 1 episodes on DVD, you get the 1977 logo with either the '79 or '82 jingles. The Winds of War replaces the '82 logo and abridged '79 music (from the A&E reruns) with the '77 logo and the full '81 music.

~Ben

bmasters9 · 02-14-2015, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frosty81

Is there anyone on here who knows exactly which other legitimately released DVDs keep the Paramount TV "Blue Mountain" logo, besides these releases:

The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976-1977)
James Clavell's Shogun (miniseries) (1980)
Police Squad! (1982)
The Winds of War (miniseries) (1983)
Webster (1983-1989)
MacGyver (seasons 1 and 2) (1985-1992)
(Broadcast years given since inception, but only the post-1975/pre-1987 episodes are covered)

Visual traits:
No registered trademark symbol (1975-1985 filmed version and 1984-1987 videotaped version)
Registered trademark symbol (1977-1987 filmed version)
Raised peak (1982-1987 filmed version)

Musical anomalies:
No music (on the VHS release of A Woman Called Golda)
Pre-1975 music (on some older reruns of Mannix)

List of DVD-available versions:
1975 filmed version with 1976 jingle (The Brady Bunch Variety Hour)
1977 filmed version with 1979 jingle (James Clavell's Shogun; Webster season 1)
1977 filmed version with 1980 jingle (James Clavell's Shogun)
1977 filmed version with 1981 jingle (Police Squad!; The Winds of War)
1977 filmed version with 1982 jingle (Webster season 1; MacGyver season 1: "Pilot" and "Trumbo's World")
1982 filmed version (raised mountain peak) with 1982 jingle (Webster season 2)
1984 videotape version with 1979 jingle (MacGyver season 1: "Thief of Budapest" and "Flame's End")
1984 videotape version with 1982 jingle (all MacGyver season 1 episodes aside from the above four mentioned)
1984 videotape version with 1986 jingle (all MacGyver season 2 episodes)

List of Blue Mountain versions not available on DVD yet (I will edit this list if any of the above are discovered on DVD):
1975 filmed version with the '77, '78, '79, 80, '81 and '82 jingles
1977 filmed version with the '77 and '78 jingles
1982 filmed version with the '79 jingle (i.e., the Happy Days rerun "The Apartment")

The reason I wrote all this down is because the DVDs of Laverne & Shirley (season 1), Mork & Mindy (season 1) and Cheers did not restore the Blue Mountain logo, therefore the Blue Mountain's opportunity for widespread musical variety is all but missed on the medium.

Even with the DVD releases I mention that have this, they have different jingles than originally seen on TV and reruns: on Webster season 1 episodes on DVD, you get the 1977 logo with either the '79 or '82 jingles. The Winds of War replaces the '82 logo and abridged '79 music (from the A&E reruns) with the '77 logo and the full '81 music.

~Ben

If I remember correctly, that tall-peaked Blue Mtn. had a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" appearance in a gag reel on the second-season (1983-84) Cheers DVD.

Frosty81 · 02-14-2015, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bmasters9

If I remember correctly, that tall-peaked Blue Mtn. had a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" appearance in a gag reel on the second-season (1983-84) Cheers DVD.

I was going to add that on the Bosom Buddies second season (1981-82) DVD set, there is a "Sales Presentation" reel as the bonus feature (which shows how the show was marketed to local TV stations when syndication for this series began in 1984), and you just might find the ultra-rare Paramount Domestic Television & Video Programming logo.

~Ben

bmasters9 · 02-14-2015, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frosty81

I was going to add that on the Bosom Buddies second season (1981-82) DVD set, there is a "Sales Presentation" reel as the bonus feature (which shows how the show was marketed to local TV stations when syndication for this series began in 1984), and you just might find the ultra-rare Paramount Domestic Television & Video Programming logo.

~Ben

Thanks for the response! Sounds like a pretty good find. I'm attaching that "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" instance of Paramount's tall-peaked Blue Mtn.; the "In Association With" words can be briefly seen within the logo, and the "Television" part of the logo had not quite made it to its place over the mountain. The Gulf+Western byline is also cut off.

McGillicuddy · 02-15-2015, 11:07 PM

I'm currently watching Taxi, and it had the Paramount logo at the end of each episode. Only on seasons 1 - 3.

JSP · 02-16-2015, 01:45 AM

All of the episodes of "Police Squad!" on DVD had the Blue Mountain.

I have to admit I bought a Brady Bunch DVD volume 1 set just to see the Paramount Closet Killer Split Box.

Frosty81 · 02-03-2016, 02:35 AM

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I need to add that the Blue Mountain logo with the 1979 music can be found restored on DVD, if you watch the Acorn Media DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the 1979 BBC miniseries).

Here's the logo in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOpgFj7Syg

Apparently, on the VHS version of The Winds of War (1983) the ending Blue Mountain logo is the 1982 version with the (abridged) 1979 music.

~Ben

megamanj2004 · 02-09-2016, 07:06 PM

The pilot/1st episode of Webster also had the 1981 jingle heard on Police Squad! and The Winds of War and Family Ties (non-DVDs).

Also the 4th and final ABC season of Webster (1986-87, also the 1st with Emmanuel Lewis's production company and 1st with the newly revised intro sequence credits and theme tune) had the 1982 tall-peak version on all episodes on the DVDs. Only a few S2 episodes had the tall-peaked one though on the DVDs.

megamanj2004 · 02-09-2016, 07:11 PM

Plus the tall-peaked variant has 5 indents to the 4 indents of the normal mountain one.

Frosty81 · 02-09-2016, 07:58 PM

The 1979 Blue Mountain can also be found on the Acorn Media DVD (region 1) of another BBC/Paramount co-produced miniseries, Smiley's People (1982). Some parts, however, may also have the 1986 Blue Mountain (the one with the synthesized version of the music as heard on season 2 of MacGyver).

~Ben

Frosty81 · 06-03-2016, 01:17 AM

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The Future Cop DVD set recently released by Mill Creek keeps all three original Blue Mountain logos intact.

They are:
1975 version on the 1976 pilot
1976 version on all the regular 1977 episodes
1977 version on the 1978 TV movie special The Cops and Robin

~Ben

Frosty81 · 04-23-2017, 01:55 PM

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The Petrocelli DVD set, released by VEI, keeps the Blue Mountain logo intact on all season 2 episodes, as well as the "Split Rectangle II" on all season 1 episodes!

The Smiley's People DVD set also keeps the Blue Mountain logo intact on all six parts... though part 1 has the logo without music due to an editing error.

~Ben

bmasters9 · 05-24-2017, 06:07 AM

And the new Nero Wolfe all-in-one (this of the 1981 Conrad/Horsley NBC series) is 50/50 on the historical aspects:

--What we don't get: The CGI Mtn. of 1990 is on the top and bottom of the unofficial ABC pilot w/the late Thayer David, replacing the 1977 (or '79?) Mtn. that was originally there.

--What we do: The 1980 Mtn. is on the NBC series proper, and as with the Petrocelli release, there may be anomalies due to age (red-tint, etc.).

stevea · 05-24-2017, 07:07 AM

I've never seen any Odd Couple with the original.

Frosty81 · 03-21-2018, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmasters9

And the new Nero Wolfe all-in-one (this of the 1981 Conrad/Horsley NBC series) is 50/50 on the historical aspects:

--What we don't get: The CGI Mtn. of 1990 is on the top and bottom of the unofficial ABC pilot w/the late Thayer David, replacing the 1977 (or '79?) Mtn. that was originally there.

--What we do: The 1980 Mtn. is on the NBC series proper, and as with the Petrocelli release, there may be anomalies due to age (red-tint, etc.).

Marques,

The 1990 CGI logo uses the 1976 version of Goldsmith's theme (that you hear under the logo on FUTURE COP).

Other DVD logo-related roundups:
--ANGIE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (VEI) keeps the Blue Mountain intact on all 36 episodes (with the '78 theme on the first 12 episodes; and the '79 theme on the rest of the run).

--THE IMMORTAL: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (VEI) keeps all the original Paramount Television logos intact; including the late 1968 "Split Box I" with the first '69 theme on the TV movie pilot!

--THE MAGICIAN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (VEI) also keeps all the original Paramount Television logos intact. The bylineless version of the Split Box II was used on the TV movie pilot, while the normal version was used on the 21 episodes that followed; episode 1 uses the alternate version of the music also heard under the logo on a few TV movies from the 1972-73 season.

--BEST OF THE WEST (CBS DVD) also keeps the Blue Mountain intact and on all 22 episodes. The '79 theme is heard under the logo on all of them.

--THE YOUNG LAWYERS (CBS DVD) replaces the original 1969 Paramount Television logos on the TV movie pilot only (deleting the opening logo and replacing the closing logo -- meaning the same one you see, for example, on the two-part MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE episode "The Controllers" and the TV movie pilot of THE IMMORTAL -- with CBS Television Distribution); but the original 1970 Paramount Television logo (with both the later '69 and the '70 themes) is intact on all 24 episodes following the pilot! Considering CBS's past habits since 2007 of replacing older logos on DVD, seeing the original Split Box II intact on the regular 24 episodes sort of shocked me!

~Ben

02-13-2015, 11:47 PM	#1
Frosty81 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2007 Location: Milwaukie, OR Posts: 214	Paramount Television Blue Mountain on DVD Is there anyone on here who knows exactly which other legitimately released DVDs keep the Paramount TV "Blue Mountain" logo, besides these releases: The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976-1977) James Clavell's Shogun (miniseries) (1980) Police Squad! (1982) The Winds of War (miniseries) (1983) Webster (1983-1989) MacGyver (seasons 1 and 2) (1985-1992) (Broadcast years given since inception, but only the post-1975/pre-1987 episodes are covered) Visual traits: No registered trademark symbol (1975-1985 filmed version and 1984-1987 videotaped version) Registered trademark symbol (1977-1987 filmed version) Raised peak (1982-1987 filmed version) Musical anomalies: No music (on the VHS release of A Woman Called Golda) Pre-1975 music (on some older reruns of Mannix) List of DVD-available versions: 1975 filmed version with 1976 jingle (The Brady Bunch Variety Hour) 1977 filmed version with 1979 jingle (James Clavell's Shogun; Webster season 1) 1977 filmed version with 1980 jingle (James Clavell's Shogun) 1977 filmed version with 1981 jingle (Police Squad!; The Winds of War) 1977 filmed version with 1982 jingle (Webster season 1; MacGyver season 1: "Pilot" and "Trumbo's World") 1982 filmed version (raised mountain peak) with 1982 jingle (Webster season 2) 1984 videotape version with 1979 jingle (MacGyver season 1: "Thief of Budapest" and "Flame's End") 1984 videotape version with 1982 jingle (all MacGyver season 1 episodes aside from the above four mentioned) 1984 videotape version with 1986 jingle (all MacGyver season 2 episodes) List of Blue Mountain versions not available on DVD yet (I will edit this list if any of the above are discovered on DVD): 1975 filmed version with the '77, '78, '79, 80, '81 and '82 jingles 1977 filmed version with the '77 and '78 jingles 1982 filmed version with the '79 jingle (i.e., the Happy Days rerun "The Apartment") The reason I wrote all this down is because the DVDs of Laverne & Shirley (season 1), Mork & Mindy (season 1) and Cheers did not restore the Blue Mountain logo, therefore the Blue Mountain's opportunity for widespread musical variety is all but missed on the medium. Even with the DVD releases I mention that have this, they have different jingles than originally seen on TV and reruns: on Webster season 1 episodes on DVD, you get the 1977 logo with either the '79 or '82 jingles. The Winds of War replaces the '82 logo and abridged '79 music (from the A&E reruns) with the '77 logo and the full '81 music. ~Ben
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02-15-2015, 11:07 PM	#5
McGillicuddy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 28, 2002 Posts: 5,179	I'm currently watching Taxi, and it had the Paramount logo at the end of each episode. Only on seasons 1 - 3.
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02-09-2016, 07:06 PM	#8
megamanj2004 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 21, 2004 Posts: 2,357	The pilot/1st episode of Webster also had the 1981 jingle heard on Police Squad! and The Winds of War and Family Ties (non-DVDs). Also the 4th and final ABC season of Webster (1986-87, also the 1st with Emmanuel Lewis's production company and 1st with the newly revised intro sequence credits and theme tune) had the 1982 tall-peak version on all episodes on the DVDs. Only a few S2 episodes had the tall-peaked one though on the DVDs.
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02-16-2015, 01:45 AM	#6
JSP Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 19, 2003 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 2,735	All of the episodes of "Police Squad!" on DVD had the Blue Mountain. I have to admit I bought a Brady Bunch DVD volume 1 set just to see the Paramount Closet Killer Split Box.

02-03-2016, 02:35 AM	#7
Frosty81 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2007 Location: Milwaukie, OR Posts: 214	BUMP I need to add that the Blue Mountain logo with the 1979 music can be found restored on DVD, if you watch the Acorn Media DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the 1979 BBC miniseries). Here's the logo in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOpgFj7Syg Apparently, on the VHS version of The Winds of War (1983) the ending Blue Mountain logo is the 1982 version with the (abridged) 1979 music. ~Ben

02-09-2016, 07:11 PM	#9
megamanj2004 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 21, 2004 Posts: 2,357	Plus the tall-peaked variant has 5 indents to the 4 indents of the normal mountain one.

02-09-2016, 07:58 PM	#10
Frosty81 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2007 Location: Milwaukie, OR Posts: 214	The 1979 Blue Mountain can also be found on the Acorn Media DVD (region 1) of another BBC/Paramount co-produced miniseries, Smiley's People (1982). Some parts, however, may also have the 1986 Blue Mountain (the one with the synthesized version of the music as heard on season 2 of MacGyver). ~Ben

06-03-2016, 01:17 AM	#11
Frosty81 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2007 Location: Milwaukie, OR Posts: 214	BUMP The Future Cop DVD set recently released by Mill Creek keeps all three original Blue Mountain logos intact. They are: 1975 version on the 1976 pilot 1976 version on all the regular 1977 episodes 1977 version on the 1978 TV movie special The Cops and Robin ~Ben

04-23-2017, 01:55 PM	#12
Frosty81 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 23, 2007 Location: Milwaukie, OR Posts: 214	BUMP The Petrocelli DVD set, released by VEI, keeps the Blue Mountain logo intact on all season 2 episodes, as well as the "Split Rectangle II" on all season 1 episodes! The Smiley's People DVD set also keeps the Blue Mountain logo intact on all six parts... though part 1 has the logo without music due to an editing error. ~Ben

05-24-2017, 06:07 AM	#13
bmasters9 Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 06, 2007 Posts: 2,550	And the new Nero Wolfe all-in-one (this of the 1981 Conrad/Horsley NBC series) is 50/50 on the historical aspects: --What we don't get: The CGI Mtn. of 1990 is on the top and bottom of the unofficial ABC pilot w/the late Thayer David, replacing the 1977 (or '79?) Mtn. that was originally there. --What we do: The 1980 Mtn. is on the NBC series proper, and as with the Petrocelli release, there may be anomalies due to age (red-tint, etc.).

05-24-2017, 07:07 AM	#14
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,532	I've never seen any Odd Couple with the original.